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12 Dec 2006 @ 3:41 PM

Part of me really wanted to insert a Beavis and Butt-head joke in here, but it’s just not appropriate.

Yeah, me talking about propriety–next thing you know, the Hurricanes will win the Stanley Cup.

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Anyway. As the whole hockey world has heard by now, Boston Bruins rookie Phil Kessel has (according to Boston’s CBS affiliate ) been diagnosed with testicular cancer (the same kind that Lance Armstrong had). According to TSN, he’s been treated–but I suspect that the treatment is still ongoing, because even with surgery cancer can come back hardcore.

Fuck, that poor guy.

Cancer is something that I’m very familiar with, myself–no, I haven’t had it. But I’ve lost both my maternal grandparents, an uncle, and two of my great-grandparents to it. One of my aunts is currently in remission, and my sister has to get Pap smears done every six months to see if she’s got cervical cancer. So I know what cancer can do to a family. It’s something that I don’t like seeing anyone go through.

Get well soon, Phil–and more importantly, be well for a good long time. I’ll be prayin’ for you.

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Last Edit: 12 Dec 2006 @ 03:41 PM

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Doogie2K says:

15 December, 2006 at 3:27 pm

Fortunately, testicular is fairly curable. (Tom Green also famously had it.) I lost my dad to stomach cancer seven months ago; the last game we ever watched together was that fantastic third-period comeback by the Oil in Game 6 vs. Detroit, and I remember telling him when he said that the Oil were done after two that they were going to do it, and I remember running through the house screaming when I was right. I think that, and maybe his gimme goal against SJ, was the only thing Sergei Samsonov did right that whole playoff.

I’m personally hoping the kid makes a quick recovery and returns for the playoffs. I don’t know what the TC timeline is, but it’d be a nice feel-good story, like Koivu’s return in ‘02.